350 pounds is quite a small gun. It could easily be from a privateer/ pirate or a Spanish Coast Guard vessel. You don't often get the EXACT location of a cannon found on a beach...
Speaking of cannons on beaches, here is one for our friends in South Florida
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350 pounds is quite a small gun. It could easily be from a privateer/ pirate or a Spanish Coast Guard vessel. You don't often get the EXACT location of a cannon found on a beach...
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Shipwreck Relic Boca Diver Donates Cannon He Recovered To Gumbo Limbo. - Sun Sentinel
Shipwreck Relic Boca Diver Donates Cannon He Recovered To Gumbo Limbo.
January 15, 1993|By SHERRI WINSTON, Staff Writer
Things can really pile up in a garage from old bicycles to dilapidated gas cans, even 19th-century cannons.
When Daryl Wilmoth of Boca Raton decided to clean out his garage, he finally got around to something that he`d been putting off for years.
``Time really flies,`` said Wilmoth, a survey-boat captain for a dredging company. He has donated an English cannon to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
Wilmoth, who dives and pokes around in ship wreckage for a hobby, found the cannon in 1966. Since then he has displayed it at a marine shop he once owned in Boca Raton and has also displayed it in front of a friend`s shop. Twelve years ago he ``stored`` the cannon, hoping to find a nice home for it.
``I`ve always sort of felt I was holding the cannon in trust for the city,`` said Wilmoth, who uncovered the cannon at the north edge of the Ocean Hearth Restaurant.
It was three months after Hurricane Cleo and Wilmoth, wearing scuba gear, was poking around a wrecked ship. Diving on the ballast pile with a friend, Wilmoth swam south of the reef. About 10-feet deep, the cannon lay exposed.
Where exactly was the Ocean Hearth Restaurant
You guessed it:
The dates given for the guns may indicate two different wrecks in very nearly the same spot.
Shipwreck Relic Boca Diver Donates Cannon He Recovered To Gumbo Limbo.
January 15, 1993|By SHERRI WINSTON, Staff Writer
Things can really pile up in a garage from old bicycles to dilapidated gas cans, even 19th-century cannons.
When Daryl Wilmoth of Boca Raton decided to clean out his garage, he finally got around to something that he`d been putting off for years.
``Time really flies,`` said Wilmoth, a survey-boat captain for a dredging company. He has donated an English cannon to the Gumbo Limbo Nature Center.
Wilmoth, who dives and pokes around in ship wreckage for a hobby, found the cannon in 1966. Since then he has displayed it at a marine shop he once owned in Boca Raton and has also displayed it in front of a friend`s shop. Twelve years ago he ``stored`` the cannon, hoping to find a nice home for it.
``I`ve always sort of felt I was holding the cannon in trust for the city,`` said Wilmoth, who uncovered the cannon at the north edge of the Ocean Hearth Restaurant.
It was three months after Hurricane Cleo and Wilmoth, wearing scuba gear, was poking around a wrecked ship. Diving on the ballast pile with a friend, Wilmoth swam south of the reef. About 10-feet deep, the cannon lay exposed.
Where exactly was the Ocean Hearth Restaurant
You guessed it:
The dates given for the guns may indicate two different wrecks in very nearly the same spot.
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How many people detect on that beach & missed it??
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If one cannon be found, what else might be there? Is this on a lease?
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One would have to check with the State but the info I have from a couple years ago is that is not a lease area!
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No lease, might be good to know how treasure hunters have done on that stretch of the beach.
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Good Luck SteveS; Keep us posted and Merry Christmas.
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Anyone can hunt there!
Been there before but it's kind of like beach detecting in a desert!
I'm sure during the right conditions something could be reached!
Heard of GREAT finds there in the past of the old Spanish type if you know what I mean!
Do your research if that's what you're after, there are old maps of Boca that show a fresh water river that ran through the back of Spanish river park that ships would come ashore to fill jugs for drinking water!!
Unfortunately the turned that river into a channel for yuppie yachts and there's no detecting allowed in the park but ok at the beach east of A1-A!
Not much of anything there at all but worth a shot from time to time!
There's a story online of a ship in the sand underwater at 30' off the beach that someone broke through the hull and recovered 1 silver bar and saw it was full of many more and attempted to blow the hull up with Dynamite to access inside and sunk the ship into the sand and wasn't seen again.
Stunots!!!
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Wonder if that channel made through the river, is one years ago they dug up artifacts, possibly some treasure when it was being worked on?
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There is treasure to be found but very rarely shows it's face!!
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Florida east treasure coast is definitely an interesting area to research. You might be getting some cold down your way, one meteorologist up here is calling for over 6 foot high snow drifts today.
